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Happy birthday, Retraction Watch: We’re turning nine

What has become clear in the intervening nine years is what a rich vein retractions are as stories of what happens when something goes wrong in science. And as we have done every year at this time, we’ll review what happened in the last 12 months.

We published op-eds in the Washington Post. And we have spoken at conferences and universities around the world, from Lausanne to Leiden to Hong Kong to Porto Alegre to Split.

Those are just some of our highlights from the last year.

As we are fond of saying, your readership, criticism, and tips are anniversary gifts enough, but we would be remiss if we didn’t note that donations to our parent non-profit organization, The Center For Scientific Integrity, are tax-deductible. Should you feel so moved, we would be deeply grateful for any and all contributions to help us continue our work. While foundation support — we have been funded at various times by the MacArthur Foundation, the Helmsley Trust, and the Arnold Foundation — has been critical to our growth, there are always more investigations, more research, and more work that we’d like to do.

At the moment, so that our dollars stretch as far as they can, neither I nor my co-founder Adam Marcus are taking salaries, and we donate all honoraria and writing fees to the Center. We will do that as long as we need to.

Thanks for considering a donation. Contribute by PayPal here, Crowdrise here, or by check made out to The Center For Scientific Integrity, 121 W. 36th St., Suite 209, New York, NY 10018.

Before Retraction Watch there was no organised place where retractions, and things leading to retractions, could be posted for discussion. Before Retraction Watch we lived in a time where we could not share our thoughts with like-minded people. Now we can glimpse what is going on in the First Circle.